In September 2021, months before government announced an adapted mica scheme, attorney general Paul Gallagher wrote to housing minister Darragh O’Brien with legal advice.
The attorney general warned the housing minister that mica-affected homeowners would put “tremendous pressure” on officials to get the best possible deal under the state redress scheme and that the council may not assess claims independently.
The attorney general told government it was “necessary” for homeowners applying to the state mica scheme to “understand” why they weren’t getting the same terms of a similar scheme offered to owners of defective homes in Dublin.
The attorney general in private correspondence on government’s mica scheme suggested measures to reduce the number of applicants, limit the state’s financial exposure and help ensure claims were kept as low as possible. He wrote it would be imperative to ensure applicants could only avail of “the least
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